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...Cross pen is still furnished...
During the seven years that the Rugby game has been played, says a Yale letter, Harvard has never put the ball over Yale's cross bar and Princeton has only touched the ball behind Yale's goal once and secured one goal from the field...
...American college is a cross between the English public school and university. At Oxford and Cambridge there are registered between 3,000 and 4,000 students. These are sub-divided as to their residence and instruction into colleges distinct from the university. The university holds examinations and gives degrees for the different colleges. There are twelve great public schools, intimately connected with the universities, one to one, anther to another. The student passes from the school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory school...
...first race for the cross country championship of America under the auspices of the New York Athletic Club, took place a few days ago in New York. The distance, which was a little less than five miles was covered first by Delaney in 26 min. 30 sec. Myers and other noted athletes...
...announced as follows : Oxford has won the boat race the single-handed billiards, the Rugby foot-ball match, the golf, the bicycling, the tennis (single and double), the lawn tennis (single and double), the shooting, the polo. Cambridge has been victorious in the cricket match, the cross country racing, the athletic sports, the double billiards, the Association foot-ball match, and the racquets, both games ; the chess match was a tie." [London Truth...